Haleakala National Park

Ranger

Haleakala National Park

Spokeswoman

Haleakala National Park

Park Ranger

It's a historic road and it is very typical of roads in natural parks designed as scenic roads that have low speeds," said Sharon Ringsven, a ranger at Haleakala National Park."For myself and another ranger, who has been here 20-plus years, this is the first motor vehicle fatality in the park in more than 20 years."

The accident occurred on a stretch of roadway that runs beside a steep drop-off.There are three plastic reflector poles marking the gulch, but no guardrails.In a previous interview, Ringsven said a similar accident at the same spot occurred three or four years ago, but no one was injured.

Sharon Ringsven, a spokeswoman for Haleakala National Park, said park rangers found the pink and yellow floral bottom of Elizabeth Brown's bathing suit Monday along the coastline, about 3,300 feet north of the 'Ohe'o gulch.